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Chris Bryant was on straight after Dominic Raab on R5 this morning. When asked about Raab's comments, he jsust said every last one of them was a lie and Raab was a liar. Quite refreshing. 

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The incessant fucking game playing by these cunts is so tiring btw. Turn up for the UQ on Geidt's resignation, announce that the resignation letter will shortly be published and then answer every question with "you'll be able to see that once the letter is published". 

 

Someone should just ask for another UQ once it's published and the speaker should grant it. 

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It’s always fun when one of these absolute whoppers has a sudden attack of “The Morals!”  
By the end of this, we should be able to, fairly precisely, determine exactly how thick the filling of the shit sandwich needs to be for each of them before they’re full. 
 


 

Fuck ‘em all. 

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36 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

It’s always fun when one of these absolute whoppers has a sudden attack of “The Morals!”  

 

He took the job after the previous ethics advisor resigned due to Johnson ignoring his finding that Priti Patel had broken the ministerial code. He knew full well what he was walking into and subsequently cleared Johnson of any wrongdoing over his dodgy redecorating.

 

Fuck 'em is the appropriate response.

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1 hour ago, ewerk said:

 

He took the job after the previous ethics advisor resigned due to Johnson ignoring his finding that Priti Patel had broken the ministerial code. He knew full well what he was walking into and subsequently cleared Johnson of any wrongdoing over his dodgy redecorating.

 

Fuck 'em is the appropriate response.

 

Although tbf Johnson witheld information on him which he has since said woould have changed his opinion on that matter. This guy is supposed to be fairly decent, which is why he has no place near Johnson. 

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1 minute ago, Renton said:

 This guy is supposed to be fairly decent,

Yes but no but.

 

Can't help but think the thing he has resigned over is designed to do the least damage to Johnson and by extension the Tories

 

Hasn't resigned over Partygate, misleading Parliament, breaking the law, withholding information about his flat refurbishment, overriding treaties signed by himself, withdrawing from EHRC which would break the Good Friday agreement and on and on and on.

 

No he has resigned over something that Johnson can spin as looking after industry and people jobs. In on it, and looking after his own, just like the rest of them.

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I love it when people use the term ‘one bad apple…’ without realising the rest of the saying is …spoils the whole barrel. I.e. the complete opposite meaning to their intention, like here 

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Quite a long read for a twitter thread but trust me, well worth it. Some of his adjectives are superb (" Priti Patel, a smirking, razor-faced ghoul with all the warmth and tenderness of a Klingon backstreet abortionist") and the overall arc is tragically hilarious.

 

 

 
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19 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

 

@Rentonand @Rayvinsex wee klaxon! 

 

 

 

I really, really hope this is the start of something but too jaded to believe it is. If labour really adopted this as a manifesto pledge, I'd rejoin and maybe become active again. 

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Put this in here due to Patel’s decision…. I’ve always been a bit ambivalent about Assange but Oborne nails it… his colleagues appear to be sniffy about him because in their eyes he’s “not a real journalist” iyam :glare:

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/17/britain-julian-assange-extradition-priti-patel-us?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

 

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2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

 

@Rentonand @Rayvinsex wee klaxon! 

 

 

Well then, that might well win my Labour vote .. Whichever party has this on the manifesto has my vote.

Trouble is, I can see the conservative counter already "Its lefty ... communist... socialist... an attack on our democracy, on british values, whats been wrong with it for the last century" etc etc"

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2 hours ago, Renton said:

 

I really, really hope this is the start of something but too jaded to believe it is. If labour really adopted this as a manifesto pledge, I'd rejoin and maybe become active again. 

The Liberal democrats had it in their manifesto in the late 2000's - I voted then for them and they got a coalition - and if I remember correctly, the referendum didnt happen until 2011 and it was diluted away by the conservative majority, into the "First second third fourth choice" system (was it called AV?) ... 

They'll use that , that's for sure - and probably con voters into believing "we did a vote for PR back in 2011 and the public didnt want it.."

 

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20 minutes ago, scoobos said:

The Liberal democrats had it in their manifesto in the late 2000's - I voted then for them and they got a coalition - and if I remember correctly, the referendum didnt happen until 2011 and it was diluted away by the conservative majority, into the "First second third fourth choice" system (was it called AV?) ... 

They'll use that , that's for sure - and probably con voters into believing "we did a vote for PR back in 2011 and the public didnt want it.."

 

 

Yeah it was AV. I don't remember much about it but it would have been a big improvement compared to full FTP. Think the main argument against it was that FTP leads to stable governments :crazypilot:.

 

Labour need PR now, and it would also diffuse Scottish independence imo. But they're shit scared of the bigger picture.

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1 hour ago, scoobos said:

The Liberal democrats had it in their manifesto in the late 2000's - I voted then for them and they got a coalition - and if I remember correctly, the referendum didnt happen until 2011 and it was diluted away by the conservative majority, into the "First second third fourth choice" system (was it called AV?) ... 

They'll use that , that's for sure - and probably con voters into believing "we did a vote for PR back in 2011 and the public didnt want it.."

 

I can explain AV:


 

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